Author: Port Pacers

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Hills, Hills, Hills

It was a weekend of Hills Madness this weekend, with the highlight being Adams epic second placing in the Mudgee Marathon. What starts out as a lovely country run alongside vineyards takes a turn for the worse about halfway through, where you run a mountain for about 6kms 🙁 #ouch

Closer to home, Dave, Steve and Cliff decided King of The Mountain wasnt quite gruelling enough, so ran 20kms along the beach and trails from Lake Cathie to the bottom of North Brother mountain, before taking on the King Of The Mountain event. No quads were harmed in the making of these photos, we’ve been told

And the ladies took their dogs to the #dirtydogtrail event with Mel and Hinata securing the win, and Laura, Vilius and Turbo a second placing. #woof

Lastly, congratulations to Rob for entering the Port Macquarie parkrun Hall of Fame, with his 100th Port Macquarie parkrun this weekend

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Trippin’

It was the weekend for travelling this weekend, with Lizzie and Claire heading south, a small crew took on the challenge of City To Surf, Carina knocked off our NENDY with a trip to Grafton, and the Poltoraskys went really west – to the Barossa where Leon scored himself a podium!

The journey begins though in Tuggeranong parkrun, where Lizzie and Claire were in fine form, both setting parkrun PBs. Great work ladies!

In Sydney, Paul, Amanda, Clarissa and Julie battled the crowds at City to Surf

Meanwhile Carina knocked off our club NENDY (nearest event not done yet) when she completed Grafton parkrun. Our NENDY now moves to Blue Gum Hills, 202kms from Port Macquarie in Minmi, which is west of Newcastle.

And lastly, in the Barossa, Natalia smashed out a half marathon, while Leon ran the 10km with Nik, and somehow secured himself an age-group podium! #LikeABoss

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Beanies, golden guitars, emus and capes…

Well, it was a mixed bag on the weekend!

The Pacers showed their support for the Mark Hughes Foundation’s Beanies for Brain Cancer fundraiser with a run/walk and breakfast on Sunday, raising $220 towards this worthy cause.

A crew of eight Pacers took home their very own Golden Guitar medals from the Tamworth Running Festival – well done to Alisha, Madeline, Belynda, Dana, Max, Cliff, Gary and James! Well done to Gary on his Age Group win, and special mention to James for taking out the coveted sprint medal as well!!!

Chel and Dave made a new friend at Nambour Parkrun, Fluffy the emu! Selfies all round!

And the one and only Trish Davis jetted off to Bellerive parkrun as part of her Medibank parkrun hero prize, taking her nominator Lizzy J with her for the ride.

Last but not least, Dave ran an epic sub-4hr marathon at Sunny Coast… what a legend!!! Congrats!

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Chills, Thrills and Sunday Hills

Did someone say Bushy?? Congrats to Julie for completing her trek to the home of parkrun, Bushy park last weekend. And speaking of parkrun, congrats to Dawso for completing his 100th parkrun on the weekend!

Meanwhile, we’re not sure what on earth is going on with our ThursDAY crew, but they’ve taken to recreating album covers in their post run photos!

Congratulations to Natalia for completing her first ultra-marathon, taking on the brutal Elephant Trail Race on Saturday, and the rest of the crew competing on Sunday in the the 25km and 13km.

Further to the south, Social Sunday trekked the last stages of the Beach To Brother course, as training for the event ramps up. Some running, some walking, some choosing the flatter options of a river run/walk. Well done to all.

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Pacers get busted on the Gold Coast

A small crew of Pacers travelled to one of our groups’ favourite destination races on the weekend, with team members competing in the 10km, half marathon and marathon at the Gold Coast Marathon event.

Karina and Dana took on the not-so-nice conditions on Saturday to complete the 10km.

Young master Binskin continues to smash goals, taking out an age-group win in the 10km! Congrats Ryan!!!

Rachel, Shannon, Amanda and Jo earned some new bling with an early start in the half marathon on Sunday. Well done ladies!

Cliff paced Adam to his first, long-awaited sub-3hr marathon, finally shaking the monkey off his back! Fabulous effort Adam!

Steve bagged a new PB, joining forces with Binnie up to about the 35km before soldiering on alone to finish strong. Gary and Dan smashed out another marathon each, and Dave encouraged Cindy through the sufferfest that is the last 10km of the mara to complete her first 42.2km.

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Pacers take on Wauchope, Dave and Mads’ 50th parkrun

A huge contingent of very rugged up Pacers ran and drove to Wauchope on Saturday. There were some impressive performances, with members taking out age category records for the scenic course and PPL handicaps busted all over the place.

Dave and Mads celebrated their 50th parkrun with cake (of course) and a finish line guard of honour.

Off we go to Taree parkrun this weekend!

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A sea of Pacer blue at South West Rocks Running Festival

The Pacer blue was everywhere at South West Rocks last Sunday, with members entered in every event from the kids 300m to the full marathon, and plenty of podium action to boot.

There were outright placings, age groups placings and personal bests left, right and centre and the Pacers taking out the team shield for the event was the icing on the cake!

Some of the achievements across the races included Cliff’s outright first place in the marathon, Toni and Laura taking out second and third place respectively in the marathon, Clarissa third female in the 10km and age group wins for Natalia (marathon), Adam (10km) and Ryan (10km).

A few members tackled the full marathon distance for the first time including Madeline, Gary and Natalia. Congratulations guys!

Plenty of PBs were achieved as well – Jo and Steve Ashton and Chel among them!

Lastly a shout out to those members who couldn’t compete in their usual distance or at their usual speed but still participated and helped the team take out the shield!

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Happy Global Running Day

Well, Port parkrun was a PB-a-thon for Pacer members last weekend. Congratulations go out to Drew, Carina, Alexis, Damon, Steph and the crazy-fast Ryan on your PB runs!!!

Rob ran his 100th parkrun, congrats Rob!

A small, but no less amazing, Pacer team tackled the Brisbane Running Festival with Kylie B (the original) taking on the 10km, Sue smashing the half and Chris B absolutely killing it in the marathon! Well done crew!

Thanks to a frantic flurry of last minute voting, Pacers managed to win first place in the Essential Energy community grants, awarded $2,500 which will go towards new run/event equipment. Very exciting times ahead for our wonderful little Running Club!

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Aquaman take out PPL and the R-Adelaidians dominate

In one of the least surprising surprises since the Bigeni baby announcement, Chel and James (aka Team Aquaman) busted open the Pacer Parkrun League final to take out the win! Congrats Aquaman, well-deserved!

And in a town a little further from home, five Pacers smashed out four marathons and a half marathon at the Adelaide Marathon Festival. Cliff led the race for the first 100m before settling in to run a cracking sub-3 hour marathon. Jon lucked out with the weather, avoiding his usual 35km mark sufferfest to clock a 3.36 on very little training. Rinnie smashed out her first full marathon with Dave supporting her all the way. And Sally gritted her teeth through injury to finish the half marathon. Well done guys!

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UTA, SMH, Catwomen and Peter and Adam’s 50th parkrun!

Laura, Liz, Madeline, Nicole, Pat and Lizzie J went for a little stroll through the blue mountains on Saturday, all successfully making it up the infamous Furber stairs to complete the UTA22 course.

Chel and Ally ran the Sydney Morning Herald half marathon on Sunday, huge congratulations ladies, what an achievement for you both!

Congratulations also to Peter and Adam for completing their 50th parkrun!

And the semi-final of the chaotically complicated Pacer parkrun league saw a win for team Catwoman (Trish and Karina) and Team Aquaman (James and Chel) who will duke it out in the final this weekend!!!